Organizers have decided to move the Founders Run to another date.
“It will be better to move it to at least a month later,” said race director Stephen Felices after directing the Cosplay Run last Sunday at the Baguio Country Club which was the second of his Team Malaya’s runs this month.
The Team was in Hungduan, Ifugao last June 8 where they staged the Rice Terraces Marathon in partnership with the Department of Tourism – Cordillera.
The supposed event this Sunday with the Media for Sports Development and e-Pub Heroes is a four-category run with the 1.5 Kilometer (canicross), 3K, 6K and 12 K that will start at the Baguio Athletic Bowl, goes to Kisad Road, to the BGH Circle, Military Cut-off, Loakan Road then to the Loakan jeep station then back to the starting line for the longest route.
The shorter 6K run will have a turning point at the Camp John Hay gate, the 3K right after the Baguio Water District pumping station and the 1.5K at the BGH circle.
“We are really short on time, so we need to postpone it to August 9 instead,” Pigeon Lobien of MSD and e-Pub Heroes.
The run will honor two of the Baguio-Benguet Educational Athletic League founding schools and their founders – the late Benjamin Salvosa of the University of the Cordilleras and late Fernando Bautista, Jr. and the University of Baguio. It aims to raise funds for the sports league and the Heroes Wall of Fame mural project at the Baguio Athletic Bowl.
“We need to finish at least 40 more, while 28 need funding and the remaining have been paid off,” said Lobien, who started the project in 2021 with artists and former mixed martial arts fighter Harold Banario, Gladys Labsan and Ged Alangui.
Labsan is almost done with the running wall portion, a seven wall section at the top of the grandstand extension. It features 26 former national team members among them Southeast Asian Games medalists and current international athletes like Sandi Menchi.
The event is in partnership with incoming councilor Paolo Salvosa, a grandson of the UC founder, the Mountain Men Creations Co. and Waynasdi Photography.
It is also backed by Sizzling Plate, Brixium, Baguio Center Mall, as well as councilors Vladimir Cayabas, Leandro Yangot, Jr. and Maximo Edwin, Jr. NLMonitor